Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
...even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...
...people packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
...been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi, Backbone, Swope, Dangerous, you would have to put up more money to win less. Various opinions Upon this state of affairs were expressed in U. S. currency or friendly promises...
LOVE FOR LOVE-Congreve and the Restoration pulled out of literary hiding and embodied in a swift and stimulating entertainment...